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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 6, 2011
Gulf Coast Week: May 6

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 27, 2018
Hiring for the long haul

Employee education and promotion from within are key to ReliaQuest's fast growth and success.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 10, 2014
Barre none

Roxanne Joffe sought an outlet, mentally and physically, after breast cancer. She found it in a ballet-themed workout class.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2019
Social entrepreneurship conference brings together students, business leaders

The conference was held Sept. 21 at New College in Sarasota.

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  • By Eric Garwood |
  • April 23, 2025
Sarasota commissioners reject deal to buy Main Street lot for justice center

The proposal to buy 0.6 acres for $4.875 million failed to reach super-majority approval by the Sarasota County Commission.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 1, 2005
Affordable and Profitable

Harvey Vengroff and partners are addressing the affordable housing shortage through private enterprise. Everybody wins - investors, VWA employees and the neighborhoods.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2012
We want to know about business, not politics

Perhaps you might try to lower the incitement of our uncivil political discourse in this country.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2019
Air Conditioning company plots major expansion

Conditioned Air of Naples recently announced plans to build a 52,710-square-foot operations center in Fort Myers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 28, 2018
Kick save

Hertz, Germain Arena, Florida Everblades

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 7, 2014
Pat Neal chatted up for Florida CFO post

Homebuilder has been in politics before, going back to the 1970s.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 21, 2023
Sarasota County to get its second Costco

National warehouse club chain Costco is planning to open its third store in the Sarasota-Manatee market.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • January 20, 2025
Polk County art museum completes $8 million expansion

The latest expansion brings The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art’s size to 50,000 square feet.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 11, 2025
New Jersey investors pay $10M for Tampa industrial property

The Stro Cos. and KRE expand thier local portfolio with the purchase of a propery in the city's Drew Park neighborhood.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Tom Johnson |
  • January 26, 2018
Retail Optimism 2018: Traffic Drives Retail

Insights from the strong spending during the 2017 holiday-shopping season.

  • Lakewood Ranch Commercial
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2009
Top consumer priority: Save more money in 2010

Sean Tennant works for Edward Jones as a financial advisor in St. Petersburg, and he's pleased with the results of his company's latest survey.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 6, 2010
Consumer bill offers little protection

It didn't take very long for the latest federal boondoggle to be universally panned by the business community.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 3, 2010
Rankings and eye-rolls go hand-in-hand

Top lists and rankings are great for bragging rights, but Coffee Talk is sore from all the eye rolling it did on the latest list from RelocateAmerica, an online real estate services firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 11, 2016
Cancer treatment firm might default on loans

Cancer treatment firm 21st Century Oncology says it will delay filing its latest financial results and warned investors that its lenders may consider it in default.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 6, 2016
Best bank list is lonely

The latest issue of Independent Banker magazine is out, so pull out your magnifying glass.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2016
Restaurant firm marks its latest acquisition

Gecko's Hospitality Group will now expand to Venice.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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